Wire fencing.



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M. D. SHIPMAN.

WIRE FENCING.

(Application tiled Apr, 28, 1897. Renewed Apr. 14, 1902.)

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MADISON D. SI'IIPMAN, OF DEKAIB, ILLINOIS.

WIRE. FENCING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 707,455, dated August19, 1902.

Application filed April 28, 1897. Renewed April14, 1902. Serial No.102,859. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it 11m-y concern.-

Be it known that I, MADISON D. SHIPMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dekalb, in the county of Dekalb and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fencing; and-I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

Myinven tion relates to wire felices, and has special reference to themanner of uniting or tying the intersecting wires forming the fence.

The objects of my invention are to provide a strong, durable, efficient,and simple connection of the vertical tie-wires with the longitudinalwires or cables and to produce a wire-fence fabric which can be cheaplymade and easily attached to the fence-posts. I attain these objects bymeans of the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fence constructed in accordance withmy invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a section of thelongitudinal cable and showing the manner of connecting the verticalstay-wires thereto. Fig. 3 is a section through the cable and showingthe manner of clamping the Fig. 4c is a plan view of the same.

In said drawings the numeral l designates the longitudinal cables, 2 thefence-posts, and 3 the vertical tie-wires. The longitudinal cables areshown as made up of two strands twisted together, and any suitablenumber of these cables may be used in making up the fence fabric. Thevertical stay or tie wires are connected to the cables by loops 4c,formed in the stay-wires, said loops being passed be` tween the twistedstrands and tightly clamped around one of the strands of the cable. Asshown in Fig. 3, the crown of the loop is passed between the strands ofthe cable and bent around to closely hug one of the strands, the dottedlines in said figure showing that the crown of the loop may be bentaround either strand of the cable.

It will be noticed that the loops 1i may be formed in the stay-wireswithout requiring a free end, and this is a matter of considerableimportance in forming a fence fabric in a continuous web, as itdispenses with the extra expense of cutting and carrying the free endsof the wires at every loop or tie.

The longitudinal cables may be made of any suitable number of strands.Barbs may be secured to the longitudinal strands of fences by the loops4.

I claim- In a wire fence, the combination of twisted wire cables andintersecting tie-wires, the latter having loops, the crowns of which arepassed between the strands of the cable to closely embrace one of saidstrands.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MADISON D. SI-IIPMAN.

